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Current Highlights

This randomized trial evaluated the effects of a scattered-site housing and case management intervention on housing stability and quality of life among homeless adults with mental illness in Canada.
Editorial: Housing as a Remedy for Chronic Homelessness

This randomized trial compared the effects of lorazepam, placebo, and no premedication on post-procedural experience, time to extubation, and cognitive recovery among patients undergoing general anesthesia for elective surgery.

In the wake of the recent in-hospital murder of a Boston cardiothoracic surgeon, this Viewpoint discusses what hospitals and physicians can do to counter the evolving threat of active firearm shootings in hospitals.

Risks of combination NSAIDs-antithrombotics in patients with MI, vincristine-related peripheral neuropathy in children with ALL, management of patients with anticoagulation-induced intracerebral hemorrhage, kidney disease staging, and more.

Author Readings

Reading by Jennifer Doudna, PhD, author of Genomic Engineering and the Future of Medicine

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A Piece of My Mind

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